1. Kidsreads.com - Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists.http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-erdrich-louise.asp

Louise ErdrichBooks by Louise Erdrich THE BIRCHBARKHOUSE Louise Erdrich BIO Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. She attended the Johns Hopkins creative writing program and received fellowships at the McDowell Colony and the Yaddo Colony. After she was named writer-in-residence at Dartmouth, she married professor Michael Dorris and raised several children, some of them adopted. She and Michael became a picture-book husband-and-wife writing team, though they wrote only one truly collaborative novel, THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS (1991). THE ANTELOPE WIFE was published in 1998, not long after her separation from Michael and his subsequent suicide. Some reviewers believed they saw in THE ANTELOPE WIFE the anguish Erdrich must have felt as her marriage crumbled, but she has stated that she is unconscious of having mirrored any real-life events.

2. Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich. compiled by Toni Nelson. Other information about Louise ErdrichMichael Dorris a brief biography about the life of Louise Erdrich's husband.http://www.geocities.com/tonnelso/

Louise Erdrich compiled by Toni NelsonWorks Cited "Louise Erdrich." The Native American Rights Fund. <http://www.narf.org/profiles/nsc/erdrich.htm> (9 July 1997). Sprenger, Polly. "More Love Medicine." The Minnesota Daily Online. <http://www.daily. umn.edu/ae/Print/ISSUE25/cover.html> (9 July 1997). Jones Jr., Malcolm. "The Death of a Native Son." Newsweek . 28 April 1997: 68-69. photo courtesy of The Minnesota Daily On-line Other information about Louise Erdrich: Michael Dorris: a brief biography about the life of Louise Erdrich's husband In her own words: quotable quotes straight from Erdrich's mouth Awards that Erdrich has won Works: a complete listing (as far as I know) of Erdrich's works Similar links: including a Kashpaw and Nanapush family tree "L'Magique Fleur:" Reader Response criticism written by Toni Nelson If you have comments or suggestions, e-mail me at Toni.C.Nelson@sendit.nodak.edu last updated 9/11/00

5. The SALON Interview: Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich The creative instinct Being the mother of five childrenhas deepened her art, says the author of Love Medicine andhttp://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960506.html

Louise Erdrich The creative instinct Being the mother of five children has deepened her art, says the author of "Love Medicine" and the new "Tales of Burning Love" By ROBERT SPILLMAN "how is it that we all, constantly, apologize for that womanizing, weak-spirited, failed contractor, our husband?" gripes Eleanor to the other three ex-wives of Jack, an irresistible lout around whom Louise Erdrich spins her latest multi-voiced novel, "Tales of Burning Love." Driving away from Jack's funeral the wives are caught in a sudden squall that strands them under an overpass outside of Fargo, North Dakota. As the snow buries their car, the women stave off the bitter cold and fatal sleep by telling each other very different tales of Jack's ever-changing financial and amorous arrangements. Like many of her characters, Jack included, Erdrich is of mixed Native American descent; her mother is French Ojibwa, while her father, who according to family legend was born in a tornado, is German American. Erdrich's parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as teachers on a nearby North Dakota reservation and she recalls that her father regularly recited memorized poetry Frost and Byron to her and her six siblings. Erdrich started her literary career as a poet, supporting herself by working at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and on road construction crews. At 28, Erdrich published her first novel "Love Medicine" which had been rejected by numerous publishing houses when her husband, the author Michael Dorris, resubmitted it, posing as her literary agent. Despite a modest first print run, "Love Medicine" was a phenomenal word-of-mouth success, selling 400,000 copies in hardback and winning the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Books by Louise Erdrich THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUBTHE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSETHE BIRCHBARK HOUSEReading Group Guides THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSETHE BEET QUEENTHE ANTELOPE WIFE ... TRACKSLouise Erdrich BIO Louise Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and is a mixed blood enrolled in the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. She is the author of eight novels, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning LOVE MEDICINE and the National Book Award finalist THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE, as well as poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood, THE BLUE JAY'S DANCE. Her short fiction has won the National Magazine Award and is included in the O. Henry and Best American short-story collections. She lives in Minnesota with her children, who help her run a small independent bookstore, The Birchbark. Back to top.

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) LINKS Louise Erdrich http://www.geocities.com/tonnelso/This useful brief reference page, created by a student at Valley City State University in North Dakota, includes biographical and bibliographical information. BIOGRAPHY Louise Erdrich (b. 1954). Born in Little Falls, Minnesota, Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her grandfather was for many years tribal chair of the reservation where her parents taught in the Bureau of Indian Affairs School. She attended Dartmouth College, earning a degree in anthropology (1976) as well as prizes for fiction and poetry, including the American Academy of Poets Prize. She returned to North Dakota for a brief period of teaching before going on to study creative writing at Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1979). The following year, she returned to Dartmouth as a writer-in-residence. Her works have appeared in the New England Review and Redbook as well as such anthologies of Native American writing as Earth Power Coming and That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women

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